“Did I say that?”
Selenskyj a dictator? Suddenly Trump rowed back
Updated on February 27, 2025 – 8:50 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
With his statement that the Ukrainian President Selenskyj is a “dictator without elections”, Donald Trump has criticized. He now doesn’t want to know anything about the wording.
US President Donald Trump does not want to be able to remember his dictator statement about the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. “Did I say that? I can’t believe that I said that. The next question,” said Trump to a corresponding demand whether he still believes that Selenskyj is a “dictator”.
On February 19, in the course of the discussion about negotiations with Russia, Peace in the Ukraine, who was attacked by the Russians, wrote Truth on his online language tube Truth: “As a dictator without elections, Selenskyj should better act quickly, otherwise he will no longer have a country.” The statement was subsequently criticized internationally.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz had described it as “simply wrong and dangerous” to deny Selenskyj’s democratic legitimation. The British Prime Minister Keir Strander, whom Trump received on Thursday, recently confirmed that Selenskyj was the democratically elected head of state of Ukraine.
